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Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…ou had to leave out? When my book contract arrived, I saw I’d been given a word limit of 95,000 words. Since I’d already written 130,000 words with two chapters still to write, panic ensued. What would I need to cut? Could I do it? In fact, I could. And with far less loss of substance than I’d feared. But I had to make some tough choices. My aim in writing the book was to find a balance between intellectual substance and accessibility, and the wor…

What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis

By Christopher Douglas

…not paying any heed to the literary arm of this new social movement: The [New York] Times ‘best-seller’ list was misleading. Evangelical books were often outselling the Times’ best-sellers. But the paper did not bother to count sales in religious bookstores. The people hurt most weren’t evangelical authors (our books sold anyway); rather, the losers were Democratic Party leaders and other liberal readers of the ‘paper of record’ who were blindsid…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…ACA to 877877. For those who don’t want to sign up, you can still find the stories and share the stories of immigrants. And ask people. What we’ve discovered is that there are a lot of young DACA people you wouldn’t know about. At this meeting I [attended], there was an Asian contingent with Filipinas, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islanders who were DACA recipients, and we think of it as just an issue with Mexico and Latin America. So ask people….

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…-evangelicals out of a random crowd from a distance of 20 yards.” But the truth is I found my participants at two very unique field sites. When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical Mind Philip Salim Francis Oxford University Press March 2017 The first site is the Oregon Extension, a semester study-away program in the southern Oregon Cascades that was founded in 1975 by a small crew of renegade professors from evangelical…

Taking Liberties: 8 Great Stories on Religion and History in U.S. Politics

By The Editors

…eligious, or indifferent—has a monopoly on the concerns of conscience. To truly support religious liberty, one must never forget that what one person calls heresy, another simply calls choice. Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents RANDALL J. STEPHENS AND KARL GIBERSON • Mar 13, 2012 The amateur historians, biologists, and social scientists who produce alternative curricula for evangelicals speak as beleaguered culture warriors. They offer…

The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

By Joanna Brooks

…to the outside and you came back to witness. So often, especially when it comes to the lives of Mormon women, I feel that there is no one but us to witness ourselves—and no one to hear us. You hear us. It has meant stripping away a lot of the stories and half-truths and fearfully-lived constructs that have sort of kept me. Bringing back a more complex self to witness means bringing forth a more mature vision. A woman willing to be generous with he…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…simply tragic figures, they are harbingers of great things to come.” The “new world of universal transparency” that has been created in the digital information age certainly poses a new set of challenges to religious institutions, and Dennett offers his predictions as to how religions will fare in the future. #9 Fighting Fire with Ire: 3 Lessons from Noam Chomsky’s Takedown of Sam Harris In May, New Atheist Sam Harris launched an offensive agains…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…TV, we admit it. But we’ve watched enough to know that the list-makers at Beliefnet missed our favorite in this odd category. They forgot about reality television’s most charismatic Christian, ex-Run-DMC rap star, Reverend Run. In MTV’s Run’s House, the Rev lives with his big, blended family in New Jersey. It’s part hip-hop, part Brady Bunch. And he sermonizes from the bathtub. Bet he would have given a heck of an inaugural invocation too……

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…ost basic of human narratives: the necessity and danger of human contact.” Stories of disease are also frequently stories of the divine. Wald reminds us that in works like The Iliad and Oedipus Rex, “plagues are the language of the gods’ displeasure.” There, transgressions of the divine unleash deadly contagion, a mytheme that would be grafted onto the scientific storyscape in the twentieth century. Our contemporary version of this narrative eleme…

Focus on the Family Goes to Bat for Bullies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y focusing on the bully, Wiseman said, it becomes a matter of the victim’s word against the word of the bully, and if FotF gets its way and strips specific categories from anti-bullying laws, the victim won’t even be able to use the words necessary to describe what they were being bullied about. “If you take out the language of naming the behavior, then it becomes so amorphous that there’s no place for that kid to define what is happening to them….